Our sculpture was publicised without a photograph in 1930, and then with a photograph in 1932 (Ill. 6), in the collection of the Baron Maximilian van Heyl, a German businessman and patron who made his fortune in the leather industry at the end of the 19th century. We then lose track of it, as it was cited in several articles published between 1993 and 2014 with the comment “location unknown”. It was only rediscovered very recently, with the dispersion of Leonard Sussman’s collection. It had been added to the collection of Dr Rosin, a German banker who lived in Berlin until the Nazi regime forced him to leave for the United States in 1934. He had given our head to his son-in-law, who joined him in New York in 1937 with the entirety of his own collection. The head was then passed down within his family as an heirloom.
Ill. 6. - Paul Arndt and Georg Lippold, Photographische
Einzelaufnahmen
antiker
Skulpturen, serie XIII, Munich, 1932, nos 37443746.